To create a global army of modern nightingales, Yoga Nurses, to uplift and expand consciousness in health care; relieve stress, anxiety, pain and suffering, and create health, peace and wisdom for nurses and their patients worldwide.

Yoga is my power tool.

I Love Yoga

Nursing is my vocation.

I Love Nursing

YogaNursing is our legacy

I Love Yoga + Nursing

What I know for sure

Ultimately, YogaNursing helps us to have an experience of God…of the sacred. It invites us into the mystery that we seek and ultimately is seeking us.

This is my story — condensed into 584 words. Just a mystical slice of the Internet — one page, amongst billions. And yet, you found me. How fated is that?

Medicine, magic + how I found meaning.

This may shock you, but it’s majestically true: I’ve been practicing yoga for 44 years. I know what you’re thinking — she doesn’t look a day over 35! It’s all those sun salutations, darling. Keeps me glowing + flowing.

Here comes another shocker…hope you’re comfortably seated, in a lotus position: I began nursing school at age 48, completing the program (with honors) at age 51. Obviously, nursing wasn’t my first career — I’d twirled with fame as an actress + model, in my earlier years.

But having that precious pair of letters — RN — at the end of my name gave me everything I wanted. Namely, the power and knowledge to serve both patients and fellow nurses with greater depth + devotion.

Motherhood, madness + the dark before the light.

Back when I was just a young sprite of a girl, I gave birth to an autistic son with cerebral palsy. I couldn’t give him the care he needed, and the guilt sapped away at my soul.

Luckily, I met a few healers, teachers, saints + sinners who set me spiraling into my present-day journey. I studied Ayurvedic healing (way before it was trendy) with Deepak Chopra (way before he was famous).

Through years of stretching, seeking + illuminating study, I began to find my own dharma, or purpose. Turns out, I was destined to become a medical crusader — the creator of a healing modality the world had never seen. YogaNursing is my legacy. But I had to walk with pain, to find it.

Big plans. Hot books. And sweet lil’ Beaufort.

As I stride into my sixth decade on earth, I’ve never felt younger, stronger, or more creatively active. I’ve learned that the truth is always in fashion. And I’m one seriously stylish yogini.

In addition to training + certifying legions of YogaNurses®, mentoring caregivers + healers to build stronger businesses, and speaking to audiences who want to enlighten UP, I’m the author of the #1 Amazon bestselling book, The Richest Woman in Babylon and Manhattan — a modern woman’s guide to lining your purse with gold, and illuminating your soul. Own it + love it!

After shaking several decades of wanderlust out of my system, I’ve settled in Beaufort, North Carolina, where the Bluegrass music is divine, the tea is mighty sweet, and the dolphins steal the show. Every time.

I’ve got big plans for my last 40 trips around the sun — like a global YogaNurse movement, rolling through universities, hospitals + cancer treatment centers in every major city — for starters. First we take Manhattan. Then we take Berlin. You know the tune.

If I hosted the most important imaginary revolutionary meeting ever, the room would include:

“There will always be suffering. The trick is to not suffer over the suffering.” Alan Watts, Zen master

Mynde Mayfield

Annette is the “enlightened” Florence Nightingale for today’s overworked caregivers and nurturers of wellness. She’s also a leading-edge voice for the critically needed radical transformation of our health care industry.

Mynde Mayfield

Patricia Raskin,Host of Positive Living™ Radio.

Annette is the consummate bridge between two worlds – savvy, practical, innovative, assertive, and at the same time visionary, spiritual, compassionate-All wrapped in a beautiful package with skill and expertise as the foundation. She brings yoga to nursing not just for patients in recovery, but also for nurses as a stress management and work-life balance tool. Thanks Annette for your inspiration to us all.

Patricia Raskin,Host of Positive Living™ Radio.

Dr. Jean Watson,http://www.watsoncaringscience.org/

Thank you Annette for your inspired message and latest of your work. It is fascinating and intriguing to say the least. I think it is wonderfully creative and of great service to caring, healing and health for nurses and all whom they touch. All good blessings continuing. I am touched that my work touched you and yours. Love, Jean

Dr. Jean Watson,http://www.watsoncaringscience.org/

Cynthia Funk,Owner, The Yoga Sanctuary

Annette is truly one of the best, intuitive and tuned in yogini’s that I have been blessed to know. Annette gives 100% to everything that she sets herself to. Anyone choosing to work with her is making a great choice!

Cynthia Funk,Owner, The Yoga Sanctuary

Jack Gould, M.D. ,FACC The Heart Center East, Morehead City, NC

I work with Annette Tersigni on our heart failure team and she is helping patients to realize an improved quality of life with her careful and safe approach to stress management.

Jack Gould, M.D. ,FACC The Heart Center East, Morehead City, NC

Dr. Lisa Vettese,Toronto, Canada

Early classes with you many years ago influenced the whole direction of my practice as a psychologist. Your soulful teachings gave me a deep and direct experience of yoga and meditation, and helped me find my own way. I now bring this work to my patients to help them cope with pain and stress…a blessing.

Annette Tersigni is a remarkable woman, teacher, yogini and visionary who is transforming the medical industry into a place with heart. Her training is the remedy for the stresses of our modern world. If you have the opportunity to work with her and her team do not pass it up!